Half-length studio portrait of Titus Rodgers wearing his Union uniform. He enlisted in Chicago in 1861 with his brother, Oliver. The family states that Titus was on Gen. Ulysses S. Grant's staff. He fought with Grant and Gen. William T. Sherman in...

Writing in May 1861 from McMinnville to someone named "Alex", Confederate soldier William Thompson writes of death of his brother, Jim, at Barrancas Barrack (Pensacola, FL) of typhoid fever. Continues on to say that companies are at Camp Trousdale...

Letter between two brothers of the Decker family commenting on contact with rebel pickets. The stationery features an image of George Washington along with the phrase "let us cherish his memory and emulate his example." See also the John G. Decker...

Letter from W. Jere Crook, 154th and 13th Tenn. Consolidated Inf. Regt., CSA, to his cousin, Hattie Crook written prior to the Battle of Franklin. He mentions Elliott, his brother, who was in the same regiment.

Dr. John Gannaway served as private in Co. A, 44th Tenn. Inf. Regt., CSA. The Union quartermaster in Murfreesboro gave the claims to his brother, R. B. Gannaway, who remained loyal to the Union, for forage at the family homestead in Rutherford...